Discovered

The Red Phantom raced up the fire escape. The blurry red figure on the ladder raised his hands, and a powerful biological gravitational pull magnetically drew a person into Barry's arms.

The survivor was still frozen in terror from the balcony. In the blink of an eye, he appeared dozens of meters away from the danger zone.

He stood there blankly.

Then he felt as though a gust of wind had passed by, and more than a dozen people had appeared beside him.

In just two or three seconds, everyone saw the dozen or so people on the balcony fly out, then seemingly teleport dozens of meters away.

"What was that? That red thing saved them!!"

"It's God! God! A miracle has appeared!"

"It was a blurry red figure!"

"It looked like lightning flashed... and then they were saved."

The onlookers cried out. This was a miracle, a wonder, a supernatural event!

"Get farther away! The building is about to collapse!"

The floors slowly tilted and began to cave in.

A red phantom darted in through the balcony.

Once inside, Barry felt the floor slanting beneath him. His steps gradually slid downward, and the tilted corridor made it difficult for him to gain any traction.

He could not stop. He could not stop. If he lost his speed, he would only end up buried alive here.

Barry sped through the slanted corridor and, in less than a second, reached the child's room Lin Li had mentioned.

But his mind went blank. The room was a complete mess, piled with rubble. The ceiling had burst apart, exposed rebar twisted into bizarre shapes. The bed had tipped into a corner and been smashed to pieces by falling debris. The wardrobe was nearly buried as well. Everything was chaotic. The room looked like the end of the world.

When he saw this, his mind stalled for a moment, because there was no child here.

But Lin Li and Cisco had clearly said they detected a life sign.

In Speed Mode, almost everything around him had come to a stop.

His mind spun frantically.

Where?

Where?

Where?

Almost all the survivors had been by the windows or on the balcony. Only one little one had curled up inside the room.

Curled up?

Barry looked toward the wardrobe buried beneath a pile of rubble.

He rushed straight at it. The tilted floor filled him with urgency, and Barry threw a punch, smashing the wardrobe apart.

A white child was curled up inside.

Barry yanked the child out and sprinted from the tilting building at top speed.

The Red Phantom placed the child among the crowd and vanished in a cloud of dust.

"Rumble..."

The building collapsed, kicking up a vast cloud of dust.

Barry stopped running in an empty alley.

He panted heavily, his heart pounding wildly. He had nearly been buried beneath the rubble just now. The slanted ground had made it difficult to exert force, especially when he had paused to smash the wardrobe and rescue the child. Once he stopped, he had nearly failed to get his speed going again.

It was his first time running on such a slanted surface. The environment gave him almost no traction, and he had nearly been unable to run at all. But fortunately, he had succeeded. He had saved more than a dozen lives.

When Cisco and Lin Li saw the red dot on the three-dimensional model rapidly move outside on the screen,

the knots in their hearts finally loosened.

Cisco and Lin Li excitedly held out their hands and slapped palms hard.

"The Flash is amazing."

Cisco said happily.

Before Barry or Lin Li could answer, Caitlin's voice came from behind Cisco.

"What are you doing?"

Caitlin suddenly entered the control room and asked suspiciously.

She had heard Cisco and Lin Li sounding very excited just now, and their voices had carried quite far.

Cisco's heart skipped a beat. He instantly shut off every screen. He knew Caitlin strongly opposed Barry becoming The Flash.

"What are you doing, Cisco? Why did you turn off the screens? Lin Li, shouldn't you be training in the basement? And what were you saying about The Flash?"

Caitlin questioned them suspiciously in rapid succession.

Cisco awkwardly forced out the words. "We... we... we were further researching Lin Li's control over electricity. What Flash? We were discussing lightning, not The Flash."

Lin Li nodded with a solemn expression. That was absolutely right. That bluff had been excellent.

At that moment, Barry's excited voice came through the speaker. "Cisco, Lin Li, I did it! I saved that child! This is great."

Awkward...

Extremely awkward...

Caitlin glared darkly at Cisco and Lin Li.

She snatched up the microphone and said, "Barry, this is Caitlin."

Barry's excited voice stopped abruptly. Then he gave an awkward laugh and said, "Hey, Caitlin. Good morning. Have you had breakfast?"

Lin Li could already imagine how helpless Barry must have felt, to the point that his voice had gone shrill.

"Get back to STAR Labs immediately."

Caitlin said coldly.

Then she turned and shot Lin Li a fierce glare. Lin Li merely shrugged casually.

Cisco could only keep nodding under her glare. He had no idea why he was nodding, and as he nodded, he somehow started humming a song.

Barry flashed back to STAR Labs trailing yellow lightning.

"Are you out of your minds? There's no need to ask whose creation this suit is, Cisco."

Caitlin said with a cold expression.

Cisco felt a little embarrassed. After all, he was about to be praised. Somewhat bashfully, he said, "Lin Li helped make it too. It wasn't all me. Of course, the overall concept was still mostly my contribution."

Lin Li looked as if he had eaten dog shit. Brother, this was not the time to bring him into it. He had only made two tiny parts.

"Who do you think you are? You'll get yourself killed doing this."

Caitlin said unhappily.

Cisco finally caught Caitlin's tone. He said, "I'm responsible for monitoring everything, Barry takes action to save people, and Lin Li provides technical support and advice. We're very practiced at this. It's great. There's absolutely no problem."

Lin Li looked as if he had eaten three hundred thousand huskies. Damn it, he had merely happened to join them once. Don't make it sound like he was some seasoned veteran.

Barry spoke up as well. "Caitlin, you really don't need to worry. I'm incredibly fast. Nothing can hurt me. I can save lives. Just now, Cisco, Lin Li, and I saved more than a dozen people, okay? Without us, they would have died. Do you want to see them die?"

"Your abilities will get you killed."

Caitlin said sternly.

"Can you say something?"

Dr. Wells had been forced to wheel himself out. If he had known this would happen, he would not have greeted Caitlin when he met her on the way.

Wells actually wanted Barry to become The Flash too. After all, this was the future. If things changed, it would be disastrous. The future had only just begun to get back on track.

"I think what Caitlin means is that we have only just begun to understand your body's abilities. We have no idea what consequences frequent activity might bring. So, Barry, it would be better for you to be more cautious and restrained."